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Thomas "Tom" McGrath ( Lynnwood, Washington; 7 de agosto de 1964) es un animador, director de cine y actor de voz estadounidense. Dirigió, junto con Eric Darnell, la película Madagascar y sus secuelas, Madagascar 2: Escape de África y Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted.
Thomas McGrath (born August 7, 1964) is an American voice actor, animator and filmmaker. He is known for the DreamWorks animated film Madagascar, which he co-wrote and directed with Eric Darnell while voicing the character of Skipper the Penguin.
YearTitleDirectorWriter2022NoNo2021YesYes2017YesNo2014NoNo19 Videos. 27 Photos. Academy Award nominee Tom McGrath has been working in the entertainment industry for more than 30 years. McGrath directed the Academy Award and Golden Globe nominated film The Boss Baby, and its sequel, The Boss Baby: Family Business, his sixth film as director for a DreamWorks Animation title, the most of any director at ...
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De Wikipedia, la enciclopedia encyclopedia. Thomas "Tom" McGrath ( Lynnwood, Washington; 7 de agosto de 1964) es un animador, director de cine y actor de voz estadounidense. Dirigió, junto con Eric Darnell, la película Madagascar y sus secuelas, Madagascar 2: Escape de África y Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted.
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In New York City, Alex the lion lives in the Central Park Zoo as a star attraction known as the "King of New York", and spends time with his friends, consisting of Melman the giraffe, Gloria the hippopotamus, and his best friend Marty the zebra. Marty has grown weary of his daily routine and desires to experience the wild. On Marty's tenth birthday...
Ben Stiller as Alex, an African lion. Tom McGrath explained that "Ben Stiller was the first actor we asked to perform, and we knew we wanted his character, Alex, to be a big performing lion with a...Chris Rock as Marty, a plains zebraand Alex's best friend. McGrath explained the character: "Marty is a guy who thinks there might be more to life than what's in the zoo. We wanted his character to...David Schwimmer as Melman, a hypochondriac reticulated giraffe and one of Alex's friend who is afraid of germs. When they were looking for a voice actor for Melman, they listened to Schwimmer's voi...Jada Pinkett Smith as Gloria, a strong, confident, sweet hippopotamus who is one of Alex's friends.McGrath said that they found all these traits in Pinkett Smith's voice when they listened to her.According to co-director Tom McGrath, the idea for Madagascar began as a one-sentence prompt, and it took two years of development for the idea to be refined to the point where the four main characters were finalized. In 1998, DreamWorks and PDI had started development on an animated film titled Rockumentary, which featured a Beatles-esque penguin ...
Madagascar was released on VHS and DVD on November 15, 2005. The DVD included a short animated film The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper, and a music video "I Like to Move It", featuring characters from the film dancing to the song. A Blu-ray version of the film was released on September 23, 2008 by Paramount Home Entertainment. The Madagas...
Box office
The film was a commercial success. On its opening weekend, the film grossed $47,224,594 with a $11,431 average from 4,131 theaters making it the number 3 movie of that weekend behind Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith and The Longest Yard. However, the film managed to claim the top position in the U.S. box office the following week with a gross of $28,110,235.In the United States, the film eventually grossed $193,595,521, and in foreign areas grossed $362,964,045 with a summative wo...
Critical reception
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film received a 55% approval rating based on 192 reviews, with an average rating of 6.1/10. The consensus reads: "Though its story is problematic in spots and its humor is hit-or-miss for the adult crowd, Madagascar boasts impressive visuals and enough spunky charm to keep children entertained." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 57 out of 100, based on 36 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScoregave the film an average grade...
Awards
The film has won three awards and several nominations. In 2008, the American Film Institute nominated the film for its Top 10 Animation Films list.
Madagascar is the soundtrack to the 2005 DreamWorks film of the same name. It was released by Geffen Records and UMG Soundtracks on May 24, 2005. Of particular critical note was the cover of "I Like to Move It" by Sacha Baron Cohen, which has since become a recurring theme song throughout the Madagascarfranchise. The score was composed by frequent ...
A sequel, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, was released in 2008, followed by Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wantedin 2012. A spin-off series entitled The Penguins of Madagascar premiered on Nickelodeon in 2008. The spin-off was made into the film Penguins of Madagascarin 2014. Another spin-off series entitled All Hail King Julienpremiered on Netflix in 20...
Official Website Official Website archived from the originalon June 12, 2005Madagascar at IMDbMadagascar at Rotten TomatoesThe film was again directed by Tom McGrath from a screenplay by Michael McCullers, and a story by McGrath and McCullers. It stars the voices of James Marsden, Amy Sedaris, Ariana Greenblatt, Jeff Goldblum, and Eva Longoria, while Alec Baldwin, Jimmy Kimmel, and Lisa Kudrow reprise their roles from the first film.
Thomas "Tom" McGrath (born August 7, 1965) is an American voice actor and animator who co-directed (with Eric Darnell) the 2005 feature Madagascar and its sequel, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa in 2008. He has also worked as a voice actor on other DreamWorks animated features like Flushed Away in 2006 and Shrek the Third in 2007.
